Best Songs of 2005

[ratioci nation]

I dont know if they are the best, but here are 20 songs I liked in 2005.  I am not ready to do an album list.
 
 In no particular order:
 
 Collapsing Stars - The Mountain Goats
 Mr. November - The National
 The Sound Of German Hip-Hop - Clem Snide
 Born To A Family - The Go-Betweens
 I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
 And We Fell - Lucero
 Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games - Of Montreal
 I Turn My Camera On - Spoon
 Cattle And The Creeping Things - The Hold Steady
 At The Same Time - The High Strung
 The Comeback - Shout Out Louds
 Snow - Pernice Brothers
 White Wave - Portastatic
 Modern Music - Black Mountain
 Circles - Bob Mould
 Pickin' It Up - Hot Hot Heat
 I Do Dream You - Jennifer Gentle
 Parting Gift - Fiona Apple
 Dead Slate Pacific - John Vanderslice
 What I'm Looking For - Brendan Benson

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Fountains of Wayne Hotline
 Leave it to a Loser
 Georgia Hard

[ggw]

Sleater-Kinney -- Jumpers
 Lucero -- War
 Mountain Goats -- Song for Dennis Brown
 Mountain Goats -- This Year
 Decemberists -- Eli the Barrow Boy
 Kaiser Chiefs -- I Predict A Riot
 LCD Soundsystem -- Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

[amnesiac]

Really quickly:
 
 The National - Mr. November
 Okkervil River - For Real
 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
 Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise!
 Spoon - Sister Jack
 Decemberists - On The Bus Mall
 The Hold Steady - Banging Camp
 Bloc Party - This Modern Love
 Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
 Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song (For The New World Order)
 Broken Social Scene - It's All Gonna Break
 Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere
 Maxïmo Park - Going Missing
 Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?
 Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

[BookerT]

a lot of my favorites...
 
 "good weekend" - art brut
 "sleep to dream" - bettye lavette
 "victorian ice" - british sea power
 "michael a grammar" - broadcast
 "cheekbones" - the child ballads
 "since k got over me" - the clientele
 "the fists in the pocket" - comet gain
 "long haired child" - devendra banhart
 "bells" - electrelane
 "i can hear the grass grow" - the fall
 "for guys' eyes only" - hockey night
 "steve nix" - the hold steady
 "i do dream you" - jennifer gentle
 "dirty lives" - love as laughter
 "o the deed" - nethers
 "the bleeding heart show" - the new pornographers
 "ride the nuclear wave" - the oranges band
 "ferocious" - the ponys
 "fuck treasure island" - scout niblett
 "punks in the beerlight" - silver jews
 "minotaur" - skygreen leopards
 "dance me in" - sons and daughters
 "sister jack" - spoon
 "mama" - stephen malkmus

[Driveway]

some records i liked:
 
 long winters - ultimatum
 aqueduct - i sold gold
 ben lee - awake is the new sleep
 billy corgan - the future embrace
 coldplau - x&y (the faster songs)
 foo fighters - in your honor (the rock disc)
 the headphones - s/t
 minus the bear - menos el oso
 nada surf - the weight is a gift
 raveonettes - pretty in black
 statistics - often lie
 troubled hubble - making beds in a burning house

[walkonby]

"she bangs" by mister william hung.

[brennser]

'From the Floorboards Up' - Paul Weller
 'Here Comes a City' - Go-Betweens
 'Born in the 70s' - Ed Harcourt
 'Sing Me Spanish Techno' - New Pornos
 'Spit It Out' - Brendan Benson
 'Gotta Be That Way' - The House of Love
 'hey Now now' - The Cloud Room
 'Summer Wine' - Evan Dando / Sabrine Brooke
 'Leaders of the Free World' - Elbow
 'Papillion' - Radar Bros
 '16 Military Wives' - The Decemberists
 'Batman and Robin' - Couse and the Impossible
 'Please Stand Up' - British Sea Power
 'I Predict a Riot' - The Kaiser Chiefs
 'You Owe me an IOU' - Hot Hot Heat
 'Oh, Sweetheart' - Shout Out Louds
 'Last Night in Town' - Lucero
 'Your Little Hoodrat Friend' - The Hold Steady
 'Requiem for OMM' - Of Montreal
 'Skin is My' - Andrew Bird
 'Streetlights' - Josh Rouse
 'Ringway to Seatac' - The Weddoes
 'Do You Want To' - Franz Ferdinand
 'Almost Forgot Myself' - Doves
 'Sally is a girl' - 50 Foot Wave
 'All the Wine' - The National
 'Black' - Okkervil River
 'Opium Tea' - Nick Cave
 'Two More Years' - Bloc Party
 'In State' - Kathleen Edwards
 'Disconnected' - Idlewild
 'Tiny European Cars' - Clem Snide
 'Judy Judy' - Archer Prewitt
 'The Losing Kind' - John Doe
 'Only With You' - Teenage Fanclub
 'Fake' - The Frames
 'Back of Your Mind' - Collin Herring

[SalParadise]

stephen malkmus - "no more shoes"
 lcd soundsystem - "tribulations"
 chemical brothers - "the boxer"
 new pornos - "the bleeding heart show"
 zabrinski - "hit the rez"
 kanye west - "gone"
 animal collective - "banshee beat"
 kasabian - "processed beats"
 seu jorge's version of "life on mars?"
 m.i.a. - "bucky done gun"
 !!! - "take ecstasy with me"
 doves - "snowden"

[tinygee]

Bright Eyes- Gold Mine Gutted
 Sleater Kinney- The Fox
 Wolf Parade- Same Ghost Every Night
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- In This Home on Ice

[duderino]

deadly snakes- by morning i'm gone

[amnesiac]

Can't believe I forgot this one:
 
 Radiohead - I Want None of This

this song

[Relaxer]

I'd say these are in order
 
 Arctic Monkeys "You Look Pretty Good on the Dancefloor"
 Ladytron "Sugar" and "Destroy Everything You Touch"
 Hi-Fi "Living for the Weekend"
 Kasabian "LSF"
 Grandaddy "Pull the Curtains"
 Cat Power "The Greatest"
 Mew "Apocalypso"
 Franz "Do You Wanna"
 Madonna "Hung Up"

[pj]

Originally posted by clouds R²:
  this song

I swear, I don't know where some of you find this stuff.